or economic interest will prevail" (Lind, 1995, p. 40).
But what Lind demonstrates is the unified nature of the interests that supposedly balance each other. In his view partisan differences among politicians and partisan leanings by corporations are largely a matter of surface presentation. PAC money goes to either party and the cost of television-centered campaigns makes it prohibitive for anyone but the wealthiest or the most well-funded to run for office. Thus, "armed with the political advantage secured by the purchase of congressmen, senators, and presidents, the overclass shores up its defense against genuinely representative democracy" in which a coalition of the overtaxed majority of industrial and service workers and middle-class wage earners might look after their own genuine interests (1995, p. 42). The sociologist Gunnar Myrdal noted the dynamics of constructing divisions in society so that "the lower class groups will to a great extent take care of keeping each other subdued, thus relieving to that extent the higher classes of this
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